In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the pointer is moved over links the URI is displayed in the > status icon but some links are incredibly long. Would it not be > better to display the URI (and/or descriptive text) in a pop-up > bubble?
You can resize the status bar, making it take up more of the width of the window. Drag the divider between status bar and scrollbar. To keep the change permanently, select [Display > Save as default] on the browser window menu. NetSurf currently uses a default setting of two thirds status bar and one third scrollbar. If you have been using NetSurf for a long time your Choices file may have the old default of half scrollbar and half status bar, which was much too narrow. Sometimes you may come across a link that's so long it wouldn't fit on your screen. If you want to check the destination before following such a link, the best way to see the full URL is to Shift+Adjust Click the link ad drag the URL to an editor such as Zap or Edit. NetSurf's user interface is designed to try to give you all the information and functionality you want and use as much of the screen as possible for the main function of the browser; displaying web pages. There's a bit of a compromise here. Various things have been considered. One is to use an ellipsis (...) when the URL doesn't fit, to show the most important bits. (Typically the domain and the end of the URL.) Various other ideas exist to provide a richer status bar too, but they'll have to wait until the developers have time to work on them. Michael -- Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
